As a young girl, Elizabeth Ruskin learned to hand quilt and to embroider and she amused herself with knitting and freeform needlepoint. Years of play with fabric, yarn, and thread inform her quirky, whimsical carvings and drawings and her organic forms. Ruskin hand-builds sculpture and pottery using coils and slabs. Ruskin's connection to each piece -- her emotional investment -- builds as the work takes shape. Her functional work celebrates the region's farm-to-table sensibility; her platters and pedestals are for celebratory meals, for local produce at a weekday dinner, for the ever-present desserts! Ruskin is a resident artist at RWS Art Studios in Portland, Maine. Her work may be seen in the Permanent Collection of the Maine Jewish Museum, and is held in private collections nationally. "Cake Stands: Not Just for Cakes Anymore!", by Elizabeth Ruskin, is the Feature Article in Pottery Making Illustrated Magazine (July/August 2022). Ruskin's work is featured in "Critters: Mythical, Real & Imagined" (2021), and in Rebecca Atwood's book "Livable Pattern" (Random House, 2016).